Women, ageing and the screen industries : falling off a cliff / Susan Liddy, editor.

This book explores the challenges facing women from their mid-forties as they attempt to build/maintain careers in the screen industries. Essays are concerned with the intersection of gender and age on screen and behind the camera and how that can create a double jeopardy. Existing research in this...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Liddy, Susan (Editor)
Other title:Women, aging and the screen industries.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Susan Liddy Putting Age in the Picture: Sexism and Ageism in the Screen Industries
  • Women and Screen Production
  • Chapter 2: Julia Erhart and Kath Dooley Double Trouble? Charting the experiences of Australian women picture editors over age fifty
  • Chapter 3: Maria Jansson and Louise Wallenberg I am mature and established. There is no success in that. On Gendered Ageism in the Swedish Film Industry
  • Chapter 4: Shelley Cobb and Linda Ruth Williams Caring, collaboration, confidence and constraint in the working lives of older women filmmakers in the UK
  • Chapter 5: Susan Liddy. Exploring gendered ageism in the Irish Screen Industries: The Problem that Cant Be Named?
  • Interrogating Absence
  • Chapter 6: Bernadette Luciano Nonnas on the Run: Ageing Women on the Move in Italian Cinema
  • Chapter 7: Asier Gil Vzquez Losing the Spotlight: Ageing actresses in the Spanish Film Industry.
  • Chapter 8: Elizabeth Prommer The Gender-Age-Gap on screens: Cinema, TV and Streaming Services
  • For the Record: Contribution and visibility
  • Chapter 9: Marta Miquel-Baldellou From Actor to Director, and Beyond Twilight: Ida Lupinos Metatextual Cinematic References to Aging and Gender
  • Chapter 10: Sarah Louise Smyth Nora, Julie, Julia: Legacies of Older Women in Nora Ephrons Julie & Julia (2009)
  • Chapter 11: Estella Tincknell A commitment to representing the unsayable and unseeable: Jane Campion, cinematic politics, and gendered ageing
  • Chapter 12: Deborah Jermyn and Nuala OSullivan And I just thought Im not having it. Im going to set up my own festival: Curating and celebrating older women in the Women Over Fifty Film Festival (WOFFF)